Martina Milburn

Dame Martina Jane Milburn, DCVO, CBE (born 1957) is the Group chief executive of The Prince's Trust Group. Milburn was Chair of the Social Mobility Commission from 2018 to 2020.[1]

Martina Milburn

DCVO, CBE
Chair of the Social Mobility Commission
In office
13 July 2018 – 29 April 2020
Appointed byTheresa May
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byAlan Milburn
Succeeded bySandra Wallace and Steven Cooper
Personal details
Born
Martina Jane Milburn

October 1957 (age 63)
Known forCharity leadership
AwardsRoyal Victorian Order and Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Career

Milburn started a career as a journalist, but then worked freelance for a number of charities including CAFOD.[2] She also worked as a researcher on a number of BBC television appeals, including Challenge Anneka from Malawi, Going Live and Blue Peter specials from Jamaica.[3]

In 1993 she became the Chief Executive of the Association of Spinal Injury Research Rehabilitation and Reintegration (ASPIRE) charity for seven years, where she ensured that the Aspire National Training Centre was completed on time and on budget.[4] In July 2000 she became the Chief executive of the BBC Children in Need Appeal.[5]

Prince's Trust

In May 2004 Milburn became Chief executive of The Prince's Trust, succeeding Sir Tom Shebbeare who had been at the Prince's Trust for 16 years.[6] Milburn was appointed Group Chief Executive (covering the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States and International) in 2017.[7]

Milburn regularly speaks publicly about the Prince's Trust's work with young people and in August 2008, spoke of how research suggested that young people are creating their own "youth communities" and gangs. At the same time the Prince's Trust was running a campaign, Change the Record, to counter the negative images that the media give about young people.[8] Milburn has also explained how The Prince's Trust's Team programme is part of a joined up package of support which helps three in four young people to achieve positive outcomes. She said about The Prince's Trust Team program in 2008 that "Our great worry was that, on The Prince's Trust Team programme, you took them through the 12 weeks, you built up their expectation and [then] they fell off the cliff face.[9]

When Milburn joined the Prince's Trust in 2004, the charity was helping 41,680 young people a year, and by 2007–08 41,324. During Milburn's time as chief executive the charity has increasingly directed its help to young people who are long term unemployed, and the charity has increasingly measured its success as an organisation by how many young people they have got off the unemployment register, by getting them into some employment, training or education. This figure has risen over four years from 76% to 79%.[10][11]

Milburn regularly attends high-profile royal events as the representative of the Prince's Trust.

Media Trust

Milburn has been a trustee of Media Trust, the UK's leading communications charity, since October 2009.[12]

Personal life

Milburn is the eldest of five sisters.[13][14]

She has been married twice, and her current husband Keith works for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).[15][16]

Honours

In the 2012 New Year Honours, Milburn was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to charity.[17] In the 2017 New Year Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in recognition of her service as chief executive officerExecutiveof The Prince's Trust Group.[18]

References
  1. https://www.gov.uk/government/people/martina-milburn
  2. "ASHA Women". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
  3. "BBC Children in Need Appoints New Director". Retrieved 14 August 2008.
  4. "About Aspire". Archived from the original on 13 June 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
  5. "BBC Martina Milburn leaves Children in Need". Retrieved 6 August 2008.
  6. "Prince's Trust snaps up Milburn from BBC Fund". Retrieved 6 August 2008.
  7. "Prince's Trust Group - Our people". Prince's Trust. 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  8. "A "lack of parent and adult role models". Retrieved 10 August 2008.
  9. "House of Commons Education & Skills Bill Public Bill Committee 22 January 2008".
  10. "Prince's Trust Accounts 2004–05, 2005–6, 2006–7". UK Charity Commission. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  11. "Prince's Trust Accounts 2007-8". The Prince's Trust. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008.
  12. "Media Trust website".
  13. "ASHA Women". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
  14. "Martina Milburn".
  15. Siegle, Lucy (6 January 2002). "Life support". The Guardian. London, UK. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  16. "Shelve the career or suffer guilt".
  17. "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 8.
  18. "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N4.
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